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loquacius posted:if you reach into a jar of hundreds of thousands and you pick up a single piece what is that piece called 
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loquacius posted:if you reach into a jar of hundreds of thousands and you pick up a single piece what is that piece called A hundred or a thousand, depending on which one of the many hundreds and thousands you picked up.
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Gripweed posted:This is way more than I have any interest in knowing about Australian cuisine. Same, I was happy ignorantly imagining they all just ate meat pies and drank VB for every meal.
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Apollodorus posted:Same, I was happy ignorantly imagining they all just ate meat pies and drank VB for every meal. Yeah, pretty accurate actually.
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TengenNewsEditor posted:If they're stretched out tubes, those are sprinkles dude. If they're small and round, you're in hundreds-and-thousands town. Now of course in Philadelphia the whole thing is flip-flopped and they call the tubes jimmies.
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SpacePig posted:Now of course in Philadelphia the whole thing is flip-flopped and they call the tubes jimmies. 
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Learning  calls small confectionery sprinkled on items as decoration "hundreds and thousands" is some real Commonwealth-level poo poo to take in before having my morning coffee.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Learning But its the only thing Medibot will eat!
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SpacePig posted:Now of course in Philadelphia the whole thing is flip-flopped and they call the tubes jimmies. parts of New England too
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Android Apocalypse posted:Learning They’re called hundreds and thousands in  too it’s completely normalWe don’t put them on bread though, that’s hosed
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History Comes Inside! posted:They’re called hundreds and thousands in 
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I assume it is okay to put them on a cake. 
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Americans have Cheez Whiz and Cool Whip, you're not allowed to make fun of people for calling things by brand names
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Cool Whip was my father's name :(
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Americans have Cheez Whiz and Cool Whip, you're not allowed to make fun of people for calling things by brand names Yes we are
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That is a genuinely strange aspect of the British race. They call public address systems tannoys, I guess because the first time they saw a loudspeaker it had “tannoy” written on it and like a child they assumed that must be its name.
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Like how the first time an American soldier saw a flushing toilet sold by Thomas Crapper, they assumed that's what it was called?
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Paingod556 posted:Like how the first time an American soldier saw a flushing toilet sold by Thomas Crapper, they assumed that's what it was called? counterpoint: crapper is a good name
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Paingod556 posted:Like how the first time an American soldier saw a flushing toilet sold by Thomas Crapper, they assumed that's what it was called? The word “crap” meaning poo poo actually predates Crapper’s toilets, so that really was just amazing synchronicity.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Americans have Cheez Whiz and Cool Whip, you're not allowed to make fun of people for calling things by brand names 
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Gripweed posted:That is a genuinely strange aspect of the British race. They call public address systems tannoys, I guess because the first time they saw a loudspeaker it had “tannoy” written on it and like a child they assumed that must be its name. Hand me a kleenex will you? I spilled my coke.
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First of May posted:Hand me a kleenex will you? I spilled my coke. You should keep your coke in a thermos and put the empty bottle in the dumpster.
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Literally A Person posted:Cool Whip was my father's name https://frinkiac.com/mp4/S06E04/737...29vbCBXaGlwLg==
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When a trademark starts being used as a common vice proper noun it's trademark genericization or trademark erosion. So companies try to enforce using trademarks by making sure they refer to their products by proper names, like "Krusty's Partially Gelatinated, Non-Dairy, Gum-Based Beverages"
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First of May posted:I spilled my coke. That's a southern US thing and it's weird as hell
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Hey that's not true! It's also a bizarrely central Indiana thing too. Oh who am I kidding, that's basically the south.
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Gripweed posted:That is a genuinely strange aspect of the British race. They call public address systems tannoys, I guess because the first time they saw a loudspeaker it had “tannoy” written on it and like a child they assumed that must be its name. Xerox
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Scholtz posted:Hey that's not true! It's also a bizarrely central Indiana thing too. I've lived in central Indiana for a depressingly long time and no it is not wtf
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   I grew up just north of Indianapolis and my family has always said coke 
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Huh. Well I've always lived in Indianapolis (with a couple short stints in the northern suburbs) so maybe it's one of those things where Indy is very different from the rest of Indiana.
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oh, not in gary, no. it's an indianapolis expression
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Oh boy, sex! That's where I'm a tyrannosaurus
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loquacius posted:Oh boy, sex! That's where I'm a tyrannosaurus
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SeanBeansShako posted:Hundred Thou are also more chewy and soft more akin to the American taffy than a hard sweet sugar sprinkle too. That's absolutely not true. 100's & 1000's are another term for nonpareils, a small and hard little ball of sugar and starch. They're too small to be chewy. I don't know what you're thinking of, but it's not those.
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